BEN FROST
Thursday: Since self-releasing "Music for Sad Children" in 2001, this Australian-born composer and multi-instrumentalist has built an international reputation on his escalating deftness at combining elements of classical music, post-punk, noise and its affinities to create an ever-changing cinema for the ears. Given that Frost's only album-to-album habit is unrelenting self-reinvention, we're lucky that impresario Kate Nordstrum brings him to the Twin Cities nearly every time his experiments yield new findings. This year's "Aurora" finds the globetrotting Brian Eno protégé and Swans collaborator piling shards of haunting melody onto massive drones and beats heavy enough to trigger seismic events. It's these monumental electronics he'll be deploying at a rare solo appearance. No stranger to constant flux himself, Fog founder and Cloak Ox frontman Andrew Broder opens. (8 p.m. Thu., Amsterdam Bar and Hall, 6 W. 6th St., St. Paul. $15. www.ticketfly.com/event/650263.)
Rod Smith
